NS Cliches: Rebooted

by **Valentine Z** » Fri May 14, 2021 6:11 am

I was itching to talk about the semi-fictional war and campaign in Burma, but... ehh, I will leave it at that. I already talked a lot about it on the questions thread. ^^;

by **Aureumterra III** » Fri May 14, 2021 7:31 am

Austria-Bohemia-Hungary wrote:People bombing rl countries with neither rhyme nor reason.

Talking about my PruCh post?

It was referring to this

by **Drongonia** » Fri May 14, 2021 7:42 am

Gandoor wrote:Is people posting completely crazy crimes in the 'Your nation's punishment for the above crime?' thread a cliché that's been mentioned.

I mean I get it, be a bit boring if everyone just says things like 'Your nation's punishment for murder/assault/fraud/carjacking/whatever' but I feel there's also a huge gap between 'What is your nation's punishment for murder?' and 'What is your nation's punishment for dancing around naked while covered in snail slime in front of your nation's legislature while singing about how you're such a pretty princess and throwing the equivalent of $100 bills to all passers-by?'

Hit the nail on the head with this one tbh

by **Brettenwald** » Fri May 14, 2021 8:41 am

Cliche: having writer's block when you have time to post but getting ideas when you have no time to write.

by **Zeloria** » Fri May 14, 2021 8:43 am

Brettenwald wrote:Cliche: having writer's block when you have time to post but getting ideas when you have no time to write.
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I relate to this so much that it hurts.

by **South Reinkalistan** » Fri May 14, 2021 9:47 am

Brettenwald wrote:Cliche: having writer's block when you have time to post but getting ideas when you have no time to write.
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Pain. This is true and I hate it.

12 March 2022

A WF cliche is people telling me I need to write about something that isn't Alastair. It's working, sort of...Marie's life is very intertwined with Alastair's.

by **Dayganistan** » Fri May 14, 2021 11:02 am

Voxija wrote:People spelling it "OCC" instead of "OOC".

This hurts me on a physical level. I've also seen people write "ICC" instead of IC"

12 March 2022

Dayganistan wrote:
Voxija wrote:People spelling it "OCC" instead of "OOC".

This hurts me on a physical level. I've also seen people write "ICC" instead of IC"

Me: *Dies from the pain*

by **Aureumterra III** » Fri May 14, 2021 1:26 pm

People bringing offsite discord drama into RPs and making entire RPs for OOC spite

This has gotten much better lately (except for the 4 letter alliance one-liner crew), but I remember when a good chunk of the II community was caught up in a shitton of petty discord drama a while back

by **Dayganistan** » Fri May 14, 2021 1:36 pm

Aureumterra III wrote:People bringing offsite discord drama into RPs and making entire RPs for OOC spite

This has gotten much better lately (except for the 4 letter alliance one-liner crew), but I remember when a good chunk of the II community was caught up in a shitton of petty discord drama a while back

One of the four letter alliances got their discussion threads locked because there was too much OOC chatter about stuff not even related to RP so that's a win I guess. They can just go be toxic on discord instead of doing it publicly on NS.

by **Nationalist Northumbria** » Fri May 14, 2021 2:16 pm

Sounds like I need to make my return to the alliances scene

by **503** » Fri May 14, 2021 4:58 pm

Nationalist Northumbria wrote:Sounds like I need to make my return to the alliances scene

Given your support for Northumbrian independence of all issues, I think your priority should be finding reliable news sources and learning some more history.

by **Kiu Ghesik** » Fri May 14, 2021 5:38 pm

Brettenwald wrote:Cliche: having writer's block when you have time to post but getting ideas when you have no time to write.
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by **The Greatly Peaceful Heavenly Kingdom** » Sun May 16, 2021 11:45 am

My memory is vague so I don’t remember which nation used this image, but I remember it somewhere in their military factbooks that it is used by their FT military.

This looks nothing like a military-grade FT airplane, yet they described it as such in their factbook.

Edit:

Cliché: FT nations using obnoxiously large vehicles to emphasize how large they are.

by **Azur Deutschland** » Sun May 16, 2021 11:59 am

The Greatly Peaceful Heavenly Kingdom wrote:My memory is vague so I don’t remember which nation used this image, but I remember it somewhere in their military factbooks that it is used by their FT military.

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This looks nothing like a military-grade FT airplane, yet they described it as such in their factbook.

Edit:

Cliché: FT nations using obnoxiously large vehicles to emphasize how large they are.

I remember that nation.
I believe their excuse was 'it looks like a civilian plane to lure the enemy into a false sense of security'.

Yes, though, some FT nations seem to just use pictures of the larges sci-fi vehicles they could find.

by **The Greatly Peaceful Heavenly Kingdom** » Sun May 16, 2021 12:09 pm

Azur Deutschland wrote:-snip/

by **UIJ** » Sun May 16, 2021 12:13 pm

the amount of evil hiveminds is a bit stereotypical innit
why are they always evil or morally grey on their best days

by **Polish Prussian Commonwealth** » Sun May 16, 2021 12:21 pm

Azur Deutschland wrote:
The Greatly Peaceful Heavenly Kingdom wrote:My memory is vague so I don’t remember which nation used this image, but I remember it somewhere in their military factbooks that it is used by their FT military.

(Image)

This looks nothing like a military-grade FT airplane, yet they described it as such in their factbook.

Edit:

Cliché: FT nations using obnoxiously large vehicles to emphasize how large they are.

I remember that nation.
I believe their excuse was 'it looks like a civilian plane to lure the enemy into a false sense of security'.

Yes, though, some FT nations seem to just use pictures of the larges sci-fi vehicles they could find.

i just took images of submarines for my ships in FT

by **Socialist Macronesia** » Sun May 16, 2021 12:23 pm

While we're on the topic of images... people, we need to talk.

A lot of nations I've seen with pictures of their military keep the backgrounds in the image. This makes it look significantly worse than putting the time into removing the background off of things. And if you don't know how to remove the background...

by **Dayganistan** » Mon May 17, 2021 9:02 am

The mods have put an end to the cliche of fashy German nations masquerading as the German Empire as part of the overall ban on nazi stuff. Can't say that's one that will be missed.

by **The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham** » Mon May 17, 2021 9:09 am

I remember there was a nation based on a Free Syria led by Bashar al-Assad’s gay son; he was liberal, attractive, and his policies were too perfect.

We should just put an end to overly attractive fashion models ruling Middle East-based nations.

by **Dayganistan** » Mon May 17, 2021 9:15 am

The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham wrote:We should just put an end to overly attractive fashion models ruling Middle East-based nations.

IS this a common thing? There's the one you described and there's me who uses pictures of Azerbaijan's first lady for my leader but I feel like most middle eastern nations on NS are ruled by a caliph or a Saddam clone.

by **The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham** » Mon May 17, 2021 9:20 am

Dayganistan wrote:
The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham wrote:We should just put an end to overly attractive fashion models ruling Middle East-based nations.

IS this a common thing? There's the one you described and there's me who uses pictures of Azerbaijan's first lady for my leader but I feel like most middle eastern nations on NS are ruled by a caliph or a Saddam clone.

I’ve seen plenty of dispatches over the years since, like, 2017, and most of the time I see nations based on countries in the Middle East just ruled by this perfect looking leader. Perhaps it’s just a pet peeve of mine seeing a country "ravaged by discord" stabilized by some fashion model-esque person.

12 March 2022

The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham wrote:
Dayganistan wrote:IS this a common thing? There's the one you described and there's me who uses pictures of Azerbaijan's first lady for my leader but I feel like most middle eastern nations on NS are ruled by a caliph or a Saddam clone.

I’ve seen plenty of dispatches over the years since, like, 2017, and most of the time I see nations based on countries in the Middle East just ruled by this perfect looking leader. Perhaps it’s just a pet peeve of mine seeing a country "ravaged by discord" stabilized by some fashion model-esque person.

It's more fun to have a leader who does not win beauty contests in my opinion. RL leaders, for the most part, are not Hollywood attractive (which is an unrealistic standard anyway). Like, in the hot or not thread here, rankings for Alastair are all over the place; I'm obviously biased and would rank him a 10/10, especially since he's got a great smile, and would rank Marie below him. But most people probably see Marie as being better-looking than Alastair.

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